Did anyone catch Francona's explanation about not making too much of this series. Does he realize that this is not the NBA and that only the Division winners and one other team make the playoffs?
After looking at the pool of pitchers for 2009, it is considerably thinner than last year's crop. No one in the 2009 crop interests me a great deal. What will be available on the offensive side?
I'm a pitching guy, and the crop of FA's was stocked last year. The Sox should have bolstered their starting rotation. They are paying for that decision now.
I really don't understand how they picked up a guy worse than Green. He has less range and a weaker arm and he is worse offensively too. Bargain baement move all the way.
http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/extras/extra_bases/2009/08/is_gonzalez_an.html